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“重婚”

“重婚”

作者: 鱼子酱 | 来源:发表于2017-07-19 11:34 被阅读0次

    替朋友翻译一篇非法同居的文章,里面提到“重婚”一词,大脑随机反映“double marriage”。

    心理明白这是按字面直译而来,可能不准确,但还是抱有一丝希望。一查,竟然有专词对应,叫bigamy。

    再想也是,婚姻制度久远,重婚必定是古已有之,专门造个词给它才恰当。

    从字面来看,bi是“双”的意思,如bilateral (bilateral contract)。gamy查了一下,作词根是“婚姻”的意思,如monogamy就是一夫一妻制,polygamy则是多偶制。

    根据《布莱克法律词典》的解释,bigamy是犯罪行为,但以故意为要件。Osborn词典说一方认为此前婚姻无效,并且主观善意的,可作为抗辩理由。

    Bigamy, the act of marrying one person while legally married to another. It is a criminal offence if it is committed knowingly.

    布莱克还说,polygamy是指两个或两个以上的配偶,有时等于bigamy,也称为plural marriage。

    Polygamy, the state or practice of having more than one spouse simultaneously.

    历史上认为婚姻关系不可解除,所以即便未同时拥有两个以上配偶,如配偶死亡后再婚,也称为polygamy,或successive polygamy。

    重婚比较负面,但在检索过程中,也发现一桩美满姻缘,主人公还用了bigamy来调侃:

    During her life Elizabeth Barrett Browning conjectured that Browning would indulge in some "feeble bigamy" after her death.Though Browning outlived his wife by twenty-eight years,he never remarried.

    这里转一下百度介绍吧,有兴趣的可以去看:

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